Novelty and initial cutting machine



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Patented Feb. 20, 1945 UNIT ED STATES PAT O F FIG 2,369,941

NOVELTY AND INITIAL CUTTING MACHINE Fred Braunberger, Garrison, Dak. Application July 28, 1943, Serial No. 496,502 (c1. 164 -20) 2 Claims.

This invention appertains to new and useful improvements in machines for forming novelties, cutting initials and the like.

The principal object of the present invention is to provide a simple machine which is capable of being manufactured at low cost and which in Other objects and advantages of the invention will become apparent to the reader of the following description. In the drawings: Figure 1 represents a side elevational view of the machine.

Figure 2 is an end elevati onal View. Figure 3 is a section on the line 33 of Figure 2. I,

Figure 4 is an enlarged fragmentary detailed sectional view taken on the line 4-4 of'Figure 1..

Figure 5 is a fragmentary enlarged sectional view taken on'the line 5-5 of Figure 1.

Figure 6 is a fragmentary perspective view of Figure 7 is a top plan view of the die car'rier.

form 5 at one end asat 29. The plate 28 has spring supports 30, 3! and the free end of this plate is notched as at 32 to receive an arcuate guide pin 33 risingfrom the platform. A suitable die 34 is secured to the underside of the plate 28 and overlies an anvil plate 35 which has H] of the feeder 9 moving into the openings of the punched strip 36 and pulling the strip so that an untouched portion of the strip will be moved into position under the die 34. r

' Figure 4 shows an emblem or other stamped element as it falls from under the die.

While the foregoing specification sets forth the invention in specific terms, it is to be understood that numerous changes in the shape, size and materials may be resorted. to without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as claimed hereinafter.

Referring to the drawings wherein like numerals designate like parts, it can be seen that numeral 5 denotes a platform supported by cor- Just under the platform 5 is a shaft 1 disposed through suitable bearings 8 and having a feeder member 9 provided with feeder-fingers I0, and with a pulley ll under which a belt 12 is trained.

v The belt [2 extends upwardly through an open-- ing l3 in the platform 5 and is trained over a smaller pulley l4 located on an elevated shaft I5 supported by posts l6, II. On the shaft [5 is a larger pulley l8 over which a belt I9 is trained and this is driven by an electric motor 20 supported on the platform 5.

An alcove structure 2| rises from the platform 5 and into this extends the shaft 15 where it is provided with a disk 22. p

Bridging the alcove structure 2| are upper and lower guide frames 23, 24 in'each of which are guide rollers 25, 25 between which a vertically movable plunger 26 is movable. Apivotal link 21 has one end pivotally connected to the plunger 26 while its other end is pivotally secured eccentrically to the disk 22.

The lower end of the plunger 26 overlies a die carrying plate 28 hingedly secured to the plat- Having described the invention, What is claimed as new is:

1. A machine for stamping novelties and the like from strip material, comprising a table having an opening in the top thereof, an anvil plate mounted on the table top and having an opening,

registered with the opening in said table top, spaced guide strips for the strip material fixed on and extending transversely of the table top past opposite sides of the opening in said table top, a downwardly yieldable plate mounted above the table top and carryinga die arranged to enter the opening of the anvil plate and stamp the novelties orthe like from the strip material when the yieldable plate is forced downwardly, a vertically reciprocable plunger arranged to force the yieldable plate downwardly upon'each downward stroke thereof, means including a continuously driven rotary shaft for continuously reciprocating said plunger, and means to intermittently feed the strip material across the table top to present an unstamped portion to the die upon each upward stroke of the plunger.

2. A machine for stamping novelties and the like from strip material, comprising a table having an opening in the top thereof, an anvil plate mounted on the table top and having an opening registered with the opening in said table top; spaced guide strips for the strip material fixed on and extending transversely of the table top past opposite sides of the opening in said table top, a downwardly yieldable plate mounted above the table top and carrying a die-arranged to enter the opening of the anvil plate and stamp the novelties or the like from the strip material when the yieldable plate is forced downwardly, a vertically reciprocable plunger arranged to force the yieldable plate downwardly upon each downward stroke thereof, means including a continuously driven rotary shaft for continuously reciprocating said plunger, and means to intermittently feed the strip'material across the table top to present an unstamped portion to the die upon each upward stroke of the plunger, said strip material feeding means including a continuously driven rotatable member mounted beneath the table top and having spaced radial fingers arranged to successively move into an opening last formed in the strip material by stamping the novelty or the like therefrom and to engage the wall of this opening to effect the feeding movement of the strip material.

FRED BRAUNBERGER. 

